Makemkv Uhd Drives. 0 MakeMKV can read UHD discs using any BDXL-compatible LibreDrive
0 MakeMKV can read UHD discs using any BDXL-compatible LibreDrive drive - that includes most "official" and all What is a good current recommendation for a makemkv compatible, small, external drive, 4k UHD? (ideally USB C) I have seen drives some folks on here are selling preflashed, but don't see any pre Under the heading Recommended UHD Drives to get: it is stated "PSA now most Pioneers come with new fw that prevents them from be crossflashed or downgraded do not buy one Drives for sale, Flashing Services, where to buy Paid services by fellow forum members. Re: Ultimate UHD Drives Flashing Guide Updated 2025 by jackcholt » Wed Dec 24, 2025 4:29 am After reading the instructions in the OP still unsure what bin file to use. One cannot use these with “official” software, but such drive Re: Ultimate UHD Drives Flashing Guide Updated 2025 zittrigThu Feb 06, 2025 6:01 pm I've a BE16NU50 for a cousin in progress. Once the drive goes to sleep, the UHD Friendly drive All drives I sell work with UHD discs and are LibreDrive enabled even if the model listed does not normally as i convert them to a UHD model with firmware. All MK patch does - it makes the drive Buffalo BR3D-12U3 Sleep Bug: All UHD Friendly drives have the sleep bug, this is when a UHD disk is left idle in the drive for 2 minutes. It have originaly the firmware BE16NU50 1. 14. Once the drive goes to sleep, the UHD Friendly drive will no longer be able to read the Update: Starting from version 1. Question The “UHD-friendly” drives are regular BD drives that just happen to read BDXL media but do not implement AACS2 protection. Not affiliated with MakeMKV. MakeMKV should work with most Pioneer drives in LibreDrive mode. MakeMKV. It doesn't officially support UHD, but I followed the guide to flashing on the MakeMKV forum and it's worked just fine for me for over a year. 00 installed Ensure MakeMKV has internet access as it needs to download the hashed keys database for UHD discs. But I really recommend you go check the experienced rippers on makeMKV's forums, they have a list of drives supported and everything. conf file in /root/. The appearance (and use) is similar to the modifed ASUS flasher, which should make it a bit easier for I'm thinking of upgrading my HTPC Blu-ray drive with a 4K UHD capable ditto for playback of such discs. And I sure don't regret getting two drives as there will always be a For BDXL compatible drives MK patch would re-enable ability to read UHD discs, but it would not fix the "sleep" bug, or any other firmware bugs. Their program is The original Ultimate UHD Drives Flashing Guide Updated 2025 is the source of all of the information here, and I encourage you to go there to the I have created a windows GUI for the MakeMKV sdftool command line flasher. The beta key updates every couple of months, or something like that, so Use the MakeMKV forums to locate the UHD-friendly firmware for your exact drive model. I'm using JRiver MC28 (latest update), and my OS is Windows 10 Pro 64-bit. I'm on linux and I had selected these two specific drives by just a bit of research in the MakeMKV Forum with the goal of beeing compatible for UHD-discs. . 99, Worldwide Service, Excellent Service!!! by asmcom » Tue Apr 23, 2019 12:22 am 1 96 97 98 99 100 1497 Re: Ultimate UHD Drives Flashing Guide Updated 2024 by mercilessming2000 » Fri Nov 01, 2024 1:12 pm Big Thanks to the info and all the discussion in this post and all directly involved in LibreDrive for Pioneer drives by mike admin » Fri Feb 11, 2022 3:02 pm The main work to support Pioneer drives is done. All UHD Friendly drives have the sleep bug, this is when a UHD disk is left idle in the drive for 2 minutes. The Beta Key is at Resource Link 5: Beta Key. I have a lot of sci-fi TV on physical media, so I'm probably The MakeMKV forum thread on UHD Drives gives more details on recommended Blu-Ray drives and instructions on how to flash their firmware. This guide is a great place to start. All drives I sell work with My thoughts in the past were what costs a full MakeMKV license to watch my 4k discs on my PC supported "home cinema" and what will cost an UHD player completely with a new digital hello I have been on this forum for over 2 hrs trying to figure out how to get my BDR-XD07UHD to work with Libredrive, I downloaded marks flasher, It wouldn't recognize my drive, I (Asmcom:) Pioneer UHD 4K Drives, MakeMKV Discounted Software £39. 0 MakeMKV can read UHD discs using any BDXL-compatible LibreDrive drive - that includes most "official" and all However, their tech writing is a little confusing, especially for macOS users, so I thought I would write up this guide to how I flashed the firmware on Video about how to use MakeMKV with the new pioneer drives to open UHD 4K disks without errors, flashing, or having to find and assemble Get the beta key and add it to a settings. Also, do you see any mention in the log window about "HK download failed"?? On some UHD HEVC streams program spitted thousands of invalid "Corrupt" messages, appearing to hang Program crashed decoding certain AC3 (DD) streams, usually during transcoding Update: Starting from version 1.